I have had this same problem for years and now that i finally got everything else set up the way i like it the last step would be to figure out this little problem.

I have used litestep, blackbox4win, and currently xoblite rc3. No matter what style i use for the shell all the windows (ie, firefox, explorer, calc.exe) still keep the orginal windows XP look and color.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but i have seen so meny examples of what im talking about that i know it can be done.

can anyone help me out?

11:17 am, Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (1 month ago)

nosphere says:

...i'm almost sure it's because of a windows update (do you have automatic updates on?...)
however i still don't know which one is the guilty that resets your uxtheme hacked

07:50 pm (1 month ago)

Kapoios says:

from the info you gave us it seems that you are not actually using a visual style which is the one that skins the windows.
Desktop shells cannot change the appearance of windows, save for blackbox that can provide a custom window border.
you need to patch uxtheme.dll to use custom visual styles.

02:42 am (1 month ago)

djspazz says:

Themes for BB are for BB.
They will only change how BB menus and toolbars and such look.
For windows and programs... You either need to find a 3DCC or Visual Style with matching colors.
Hope that helped. :]

12:20 pm (1 month ago)

tragicHX says:

nosphere - fresh install and no updates yet. Ill keep and eye on what stops working when update after i figure this out.

Kapoios - Yeah that sounds like what i need to do. I'm going to go back to black box for that and google uxtheme.dll and see what i can find.

djspazz - ill look into all that if i can't get bb to work right.

Thanks so much for your comments and getting me pointed in the right direction.

12:41 am (1 month ago)

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